When you're talking about authorship, I guess that's the reason why the beginners and help board was created so beginners can learn from there snr colleagues in the forum and also ask relevant questions that will help them stand strong In the forum and to also gain knowledge as it concerns Bitcoin.  With that being said, I believe if you need any form of mentorship you can search for it using the search option in the forum an you will be directed to relevant threads that relate to what you are looking for.

As the saying goes, "wisdom is profitable to direct" and at this stage when the economy is not favorable at all, we must start thinking outside the box, and that involves looking for a soft skill you can do from the comfort of your home that will get you paid in a currency that has a value that is higher than ours.

Soft skills that can allow you to work remotely include.
1 digital marketing
2. Software design/ development
3. Copywriting
4. Social Media influencing: if you can also make your account get monetized, either on YouTube or any other social media platforms, it's also a good way to go.

Have you noticed that since the thread came up in the board, the kind of post you find here has changed to a very large extent?

I guess that the purpose of the caution is gradually yielding positive result and I'm happy it has helped the board in the right way. Our snr men in the forum serves as leaders and role model to those of us coming up and it would be bad that they will see us going outside of the reason why the board was created and not encourage us to do better.

When I joined the board the first thing I observed was the kind of thread our board members makes here and I just followed suit not until the thread came up that I got my thought process shaped in line with the purpose of the board and I'm working on only creating threads that is bitcoin related or at least informative and educative enough.

Nothing is perfect, man! Everything has its limitations and shortcomings although some limitations are negligible and could be managed while others are awful and if there is a chance of doing away with it, should be made to go into extinction. This is the reason why you see people that believe in the prospect of Bitcoin advocating and hoping it gains acceptance by the majority of society because the fiat currency that is controlled by a central authority and is so much regulated by the government has worse off imperfections than what you just mentioned here.

Recently in my country, the government imposed an automatic deduction of a certain amount from all account holders and you don't even have a say regarding thos decision because they could make this withdrawal from there own end before you even notice it. What do you call that? Near perfection right?

it's funny that some persons will wait for moments when they see bitcoin price going up before the thought to invest in bitcoin comes to there mind and like you rightly pointed out, bitcoin price can go up and then up, up and then down, down and then down and so on. so you can't just predict that because it is going up now , this is absolutely the time to invest into bitcoin and when you see the price going down you retreat from your plan on making the investment. It means that if you even successfully make the investment, you can't hodl your bitcoin because in the event of any fluctuation in price, you will let go of your investment.

Real investors sees the prospect of bitcoin and invest a certain amount and leave it for quality amount of time while he monitor the price without getting seriously moved by any fluctuations in price that comes along the way.

if it's leading me to become uncontrollably addicted to it, that can make me stop it. But what you also need to understand is that if you've been into gambling for a long time, you can't just decide to stop gambling and just stop it like that, it has to be a gradual process where you reduce how frequent you gamble, isolate from sources that will bring you back to the habit and might sometimes require that you talk to a friend about the habit.

But if you are the type that does responsible gambling, it won't be necessary to stop it cause the more you do it, the more experienced you become and some  moment win either win or lose out on a game and this will guide you for future prediction purposes.

I don't think it's right to make gambling your full time job as it has the potential of making you seriously addicted but I know some guys that are too good with there gambling and they are making a huge fortune out of it. So this is what they do basically, they mostly do soccer gambling and they will use a reasonable amount on some games that will obviously play for them and they just stick with this pattern and only make such prediction on games that they are almost 70% sure will bring a win. After which they wait for similar games before placing there next bet.

Apart from the fact that some gambling will need you to analyse the team you are betting for to ascertain there current strength which might take a bit of your time, you can sit at the comfort of your office and place a bet within some couple of minutes after which you continue with your official jobs and this will make you a responsible gambler.

yeah! Initially I felt the gambling board is going to be the easiest board one could relate with because of the popularity of gambling but when I started participating in the gambling discussions I discovered that it's actually far from what I think. Most of the gambling threads are not all that familiar stuff that beginners can easily relate with especially when it concerns sports that are not all too popular in your locality and you will find yourself straining all out to just to understand an follow up on the discussions.

But like you rightly pointed out, soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world and newcomers can choose that as a very good start for them in the board although the number of soccer thread I find in the gambling board isn't always that much but to be on a safer side and to avoid making comments that are off, you can just stick to it and look for others sport you are a big familiar with that you can also contribute positively in.

e de very funny how topics relating to the hardship in the country don become the most comfortable topic for people to easily relate with. And some lazy people go even use this whole "the country is hard" stuff to support there laziness and won't go out there and look for something reasonable to start there lives with.

One thing we need understand for the situation of our country be say I no de even see any possibility say things go better like that anytime soon but you self fit make the decision to better your life by being intentional about your financial state and with time, if dollar like make e rise or drop, if fuel like maker e scarce or not or the price of yarn go as high as possible, e no go affect you that much.

And the thing about investing into bitcoin or any other investment you de do be say you no go see say hunger de show you shege and you know say you get wetin you fit sell use sustain yourself den still allow hunger to continue making mess of you. The temptation to use your investment take hold body for the moment go come to your mind and you might not be able to resist it.

What I'm saying in essence is this, regardless of the harmattan when de blow every where, make we still try find something wen we go do when go fetch us some money so our mind fit commot for our bitcoin investment.

Make I assume say when you de refer to working smart, you de refer to doing online jobs or self employed job while working hard in this your context de refer to those when de do physical jobs like the normal salary earners or those people when he exert serious energy for the works them de do.

The reality be say the world don evolve and the way we take de do things don also change and like some people put am here, no be who work pass de earn pass.

This de remind me of when we been de school and that time we been start new, we go de enter night class almost every night de stay awake till morning before going back to the house and by 8 in the morning we go enter morning class back. For our mind we de work very hard and we go de see people when no de come night class as lazy ones while in the real sense, those people don understand the school system and de fit go read from 5pm and before 9, them don go back there hostel go sleep comfortably and de fresh to prepare for the next day lecture and when result de even finally come out, most of their result de make sense pass our own.

For me, I feel say the concept of working smart rather than working hard is that while doing anything in general, you need to look at the best and most easy way you can do it in a modern way that will fetch you the same or even more than the cash you would have gotten by working your ass all out.

it saddens my heart to see how much the value we place on human lives have dropped this low and we are still taking side in this whole massacre of a thing. I have experience some tiny conflict in my local community while growing up and I know how it disorganised me and the trauma it gave me and to know that what this war has caused people and families is 5000 times whatever I felt shocks me to my bone

And the sad thing is that the world is just watching this whole stuff on TVs and social media as if it is an horror movie while lives continue going down as the war continues. Indeed this is very sad.

I know hen it comes to international wars like this, the supper nations are in the best position to solicit for a cease fire but we are facing a situation where most of them are playing politics with peoples lives and will keep quiet to defend there pride rather than make statement than has high potential of bringing this war to an end.

I weap for the innocent chilren and persons who are dying daily in this war.

I doubt that the condition we are facing in Africa is a product of us being black. the black man you are referring to is doing well in almost all the sectors on the world stage and if you take away this self-pity mentality, you will discover our only problem is that we are not ready to take responsibility for our lives and we are waiting for people from outside our environment to come fix things for us.

No doubt, na them carry civilization com this our side and before them come, wetin we de used to na those traditional stuff when our fore fathers de do and e really been de help us that time and the book you de even refer to na the idea when oyibo man carry come na him we just de struggle on how to understand come even de abandone our own way of doing things.

Sometimes I de feel say if we calm down make use of the powers when god don bless us with in a right way, Africa go develop and become dependent on themselves pass the way we de now.

I mean, how many books you don see when African men don write on how odeshi de work? Or how we fit take modernize all these jazz when black man de use wicked people for village. Who don reason to even meet with those elderly men when de stop rain and do some incantation and rain go just start to fall make those men share this update with youth so we fit analyse them and  think on how we go take use am better our lives in the future.

I do science for school and no matter how we take de do the analysis on how you fit de here call person when de very far and the person go hear you or this whole video call stuff when person when no de this country go de see you for here, the whole thing no de as simple as e appear but because de don put am for book and we don read am, and don believe say wetin dem talk na true, we don de use am and e De benefit us wella but the reality be say e get a part of those technology when we no really know some this about.

The summary of wetin I de talk be say Africa de blest on a normal but na we never de ready to tap into our blessings.

Na real matters you just yarn so and I want also add say the matter no be only for people when no de do anything but e also concern people when never de financially stable and almost all there money de finish at the end of every month.  before you go fit make better investment for Bitcoin when be say no matter the fluctuation you de see for the price like wetin just de happen now, you go fit hold yourself, e go be say you no de look for quick money and that one go only happen when you de financially stable.

I know say we fit buy bitcoin with as low as $5 but if you want take the accumulation of bitcoin serious you go need hold small money. Na why we de get plenty thread when de advice say make we no take this forum as our office as we go still need to get other things when we go de do when go de fetch us passive income so our knowledge on Bitcoin no go just end here but we too go for follow invest in bitcoin.

it isn't a bad plan to consider cutting down your expenses most especially when it comes to entertainment expenses. But it's also necessary to know that you can't spend all your life making investment and not keep out some funds to take care of your own comfort and the comfort of your families. Another thing you should know is that there is a high chance that if you are not disciplined enough, you might not even invest the 4150 into bitcoin so while making a budget on what you are to spend every months, if for any reason you want to accumulate bitcoin from your personal earnings, you should automate it that ones you receive your pay that a certain amount will go into bit in investment.

The discussion on Bitcoin misinformation should take a two-sided analysis. The first is on the part of the people who believe that Bitcoin is a scam which you spoke about, and you can't stop them from believing what they want to believe because their belief system is a function of the information they've previously received and the best you can do is to give them the proper education regarding bitcoin investment both in the short run and also the advantage of holding bitcoin in the long run. This might change their thought process but if it doesn't, you just have to let them be.

The second part should be on the people who paint Bitcoin as a get-rich-quick scheme and also the unguided misinformation that tends to equate bitcoin to other cryptocurrencies tempting uninformed people to invest in other coin that might be scams and worse of, hodl it with the hope of it appreciation in the coming years.

no doubt, you just gave a good analysis here! With the right marketing system and focusing on the a massive audience, even if you are only able to make a penny from a single individual and you multiply it with the millions of audience at your disposal, the amount you are referring to becomes very much feasible and yes, it's very possible that there games are not rigged but might be as fair as possible. 

the issue on when one should be thinking on being financially stable is one that is very important, most especially for the younger ones. I guess this depends a lot on the mindset of the individual and also on the structure of the family the person comes from. There are individual that are very money minded and starts very early to fend for themselves and before they are even 25, they have attained a reasonable status of financial stability. Some families  believe that it is always the right step that one finishes all his studies before thinking on starting up a job and you will find people from such kind of families depending on theere parents till they eve approach almost 30.

But times have changed and people have started making money at a very young age so answer to the question on the age one should get to before thinking about financial stability is now more of the information, skill, and maturity level of the person. From the age of 18 upward, one should start taking serious responsibility of his financial life and ensure that he/she has started making savings no money how little it his.

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That's a challenge you have to decide that you must overcome. I believe that of you put in additional effort to follow up with the discussion in the gambling board, you will see some threads you can contribute something a bit reasonable although it might not be as reasonable as you would do if you are replying or creating a post in a board you are very much familiar with.  It's a challenge that I'm also facing but I just look for some thread I have some knowledge on and give my own contribution to the best I my knowledge.

There are times it might require me to search out for some information on the thread I intend responding to and I will just do it before making my reply.

For now I am not strong enough to start up a thread in the gambling board so I just stick to making replies pending when I will have anything reasonable to share with board.

Whatever you do, if you joke with the basics of it, you will struggle getting things right in the long run. So I think it's necessary we look at some fundamental steps never to avoid as  we navigate and thrive through this forum.
1. the first, is to take your security very seriously . Of course you need to understand that securing your account should be one of your most important priority. Here are some links to guide you on how best to secure your account.
Securing your account.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415461.msg61035839#msg61035839

2. Secondly, you need to know the different board and stick with the ones that suit you the most. 
Apart from this board (beginners and help), there are other boards that are specially created for specific kind of discussions ranging from the general discussion, economy, politics and society and also some others. The local board is where bitcoin discussions relating to your country is posted. Ensure you join your local board as it's mostly the most comfortable board that will help you blend into the forum easily. Also note that as a beginner with little or no experience in the forum, stick to boards that you can relate easily with what's happening there while you gradually check other boards and with time you can contribute in those boards.
3. Always abide by the rules and regulations in the forum . As simple as this sounds, this is one of the most important guide in the forum, always read the rules that guides you on how to create quality threads and replies that won't be Tagged as shit/spam post. remember that replies like, thank you, you are correct, you just spoke my mind and comments of these sort are regarded as spam so you try to avoid them as much as possible. You can decide that every contribution you will make in the forum won't be less than 4 lines. One of the most famous guide on how to do this is repeatedly posted in this board, you can still go through it. Newbie read before posting
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5279088.msg55287488#msg55287488 Make it a necessity to always reference the source of your information by sharing the link to the original post you're referencing and make sure you are not creating an already existing thread instead, contribute on the thread that is already in the forum
4. Grow your account as organic as possible 
 Ihis is also very important because if from this moment that you're just joining the forum you start making quality threads and replies, you are building a reputation that will speak for you later and of course when the need arises, you will receive some merit as a form of encouragement for you to do better.

 Try as much as you can never to copy writeup from blogs or worse of,  use chat gpt for your writups as a plagiarism test will be done on your thread and it might course you your account being banned if care is not taken
5. Avoid spamming peoples inbox for your own good and don't think you can beg for merit via someone's inbox and get one 
work hard on making your account stand out and with time you will do just fine.

6. Finally, make the search engine your closest friend as it will help you get answers to most of the question you might want to ask always search for stuff using the search engine before creating post of same kind.

Remember that this is not your regular social media so be as professional as possible.